Today is day 4 of the MN muzzleloader season. I got out for a couple hours opening day but didn't see anything. This morning I had to go out and cut some firewood. I wanted to make sure we had extra as there's supposed to be a big storm coming tonight and tomorrow followed by single digit highs and minus double digit lows, before the wind chill. Today is foggy and a little misty, and very quiet.
As I was cutting, I couldn't help but notice that it seemed like a real good day to be in the woods. Then I started thinking "you know, with this storm coming they should be up moving around today. If only I didn't have to work this afternoon." I've been working a whole lot of extra days lately, 7 or 8 in a row with just a day off here and there, plus staying late to cover OT. Today it paid off. A quick call to the Capt. and I was approved for a short notice vacation day. I'm going to eat some lunch real quick, go move a ground blind before it gets snowed on and frozen to the spot I don't want to hunt, then I'll hike to the back of the woods and climb up my ladder stand. I hope to be in the stand no later than 230. I've never hunted this stand in the evening, but have also never seen anything from it during the morning. I have a friend that bowhunts out of it and has seen deer every evening he's sat in it, so we'll see what happens.